Top leaders of the ruling Communist Party of China (CPC)
discussed on Tuesday two important documents reviewing the central
government's work over the past year and setting the guidelines for
the country's development in the coming five years.
The leaders, during the discussion, stressed the need for
continued innovation, scientific development and economic
restructuring.
The meeting of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central
Committee, chaired by Hu
Jintao, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, took a
detailed look at the draft government work report for last year and
the draft guidelines for the national economic and social
development program for the 11th Five-Year Period (2006-2010).
Both documents will be submitted for examination and adoption by
the National People's Congress,?at its annual full session
slated for March.
After the country's achievements in 2005, Hu urged all Party
committees and governments at all levels in the country to
facilitate innovation and economic restructuring.
"The year 2006 is the first year of the 11th Five-Year Period,
and we face onerous tasks in developing and maintaining stability,"
says a statement from the meeting.
The statement says Party committees and governments need to put
public interests first while strengthening the overall development
of the country's economic, political, cultural and social
structure.
The meeting calls on Party committees and governments to
maintain stable macro-economic policies, which are to be
implemented in a fiscally prudent manner in order to expand
consumer demand, maintain investment in fixed assets and ensure
stable and fast economic development.
More support should be given to farmers, rural areas and
agricultural development in a bid to build a "new socialist
countryside" and develop modern farming, thus increasing grain
production and farmers' income, improving infrastructure
construction and pushing forward a comprehensive reform in the
rural areas, says the meeting's statement.
Efforts should also be made to enhance the country's innovation
capability, build up an environmentally-friendly, resources-saving
society, and better coordinate regional development.
The meeting also underlines other social undertakings, including
pushing forward nine-year compulsory education, implementing
proactive employment policies, building a social security network,
and enhancing health care and industrial safety.
(Xinhua News Agency February 22, 2006)
